Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

Опубликовано 27 апреля 2023, 16:11

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Almost everything we know about the reproductive practices of European eels comes from a genius study conducted more than 100 years ago.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- European Eel: A long-lived, snakelike fish native to the rivers of Europe.
- Eel, Pie, and Mash: A common meal of poorer Englishmen for the last several centuries.
- Spontaneous Generation: The hypothetical process by which organisms would generate from non-living matter.
- The Eel Question: A matter of great debate for millenia - specifically: how do eels reproduce and where do they come from?
- Sargasso Sea: A region of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre that is recognizable by the large presence of Sargassum seaweed.

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REFERENCES
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Schmidt, J. (1923). The Breeding Places of the Eel. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, 211, 179–208. jstor.org/stable/92087

Jarvis, Brooke (2020). Where Do Eels Come From? The New Yorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05...

Wright, R.M., Piper, A.T., Aarestrup, K. et al. (2022) First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea. Sci Rep 12, 15362. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-192...

Couch, C. (2022) The Utterly Engrossing Search for the Origin of Eels. Smithsonian Magazine. smithsonianmag.com/science-nat...

Paulson, S. (2020). Eels Don’t Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life. Nautilus Magazine. nautil.us/eels-dont-have-sex-u...